Update, 6:51 p.m.: Well, it's far from complete. But I gather ESI laid off a little more than two-dozen people from its engineering department. Spokeswoman Barbara Rizzatti says tonight that ESI won't be clarifying things any:

"Please be advised that it is ESI's corporate policy not to comment on all non-reportable events."

ESI plays in the softened semiconductor test and equipment business, and has a particularly big presence in the struggling memory chip business. Its sales and profits were down sharply last quarter.